Again I feel comfortable that production has started as of October 2024.
Shipments of the Switch 2 SoC (Tegra T239) to their Vietnam factory (keep in mind this factory makes about 200,000 Switch 1 systems per month presently and receives about 200k of the Switch 1 SoC per month):
June: 3000-4000
July: 3000-4000
August: 48,000
September: 810,000+ delivered
The motherboard, LCD screen, dock components for the Switch 2 are also arriving in large numbers now to this factory. Even the dimensions for the physical Switch 2 box are now known because a small quantity of the Switch 2 packaging were shipped as well to the Vietnam facility as of October (it has its own product code).
The Switch 2's product code is "BEE" by the way (speculate on what that stands for). Switch 1 is HAC (which probably stands for "Handheld And Console"), with Switch Lite being HDH and Switch OLED being HEG. So for example on the Switch OLED packaging you can see it ships with HEG-001 (the Switch OLED console) but also HAC-002 ... HAC-002 means the power adaptor, and that adaptor is HAC because it's the same adaptor in the OG launch Switch model too.
By the way "BEE" has now started appearing in Nintendo's own official copyright notices even for Switch 1 products, so for people who say "how do we know shipment data is legit!" ... the product code BEE has been now seen in official Nintendo documenation for the Switch 1 even:
There you go "BEE-006" I believe is the product code for Switch 2 game cartridges (HAC-008 is Switch 1 game carts I think).
Generally speaking I think a product launch 6 months after production begins is a good bet. With PS5 we saw some launch units dated to May 2020 at the earliest (Sony puts production dates on their consoles), and it launched of course on November 12 2020.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 10 December 2024
